Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 13
Unktómee [72]--Ho!" muttered the braves, for they deemed him the black Spider-Spirit That dwells in the drearisome caves, and walks on the marshes at midnight, With a flickering torch in his hand, to decoy to his den the unwary.
Who acts: Unktómee, braves · What happens: mutter, deem, walk, flicker, decoy · To what, where: braves, Unktómee, marshes
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Unktómee, braves), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Unktómee | Unktómee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 muttered | nsubj |
| 2 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 3 72 | punct |
| 3 | 72 | 72 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Unktómee | appos |
| 4 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 3 72 | punct |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 Ho | punct |
| 6 | Ho | Ho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Unktómee | appos |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 Ho | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Ho | punct |
| 9 | muttered | mutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 braves | det |
| 11 | braves | brave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 muttered | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 deemed | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 deemed | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 deemed | nsubj |
| 15 | deemed | deem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 muttered | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 deemed | obj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Spirit | det |
| 18 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Spirit | amod |
| 19 | Spider | Spider | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Spirit | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Spider | punct |
| 21 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 deemed | obl |
| 22 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 dwells | det |
| 23 | dwells | dwell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 Spirit | appos |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 caves | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 caves | det |
| 26 | drearisome | drearisome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 caves | amod |
| 27 | caves | cave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 dwells | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 walks | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 walks | cc |
| 30 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 muttered | parataxis |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 marshes | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 marshes | det |
| 33 | marshes | marsh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 walks | obl |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 midnight | case |
| 35 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 walks | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 torch | punct |
| 37 | With | with | ADP | _ | 40 torch | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 torch | det |
| 39 | flickering | flicker | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 40 torch | amod |
| 40 | torch | torch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 walks | obl |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 hand | case |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 hand | nmod:poss |
| 43 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 torch | nmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 decoy | punct |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 decoy | mark |
| 46 | decoy | decoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 walks | conj |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 den | case |
| 48 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 den | nmod:poss |
| 49 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 decoy | obl |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 unwary | det |
| 51 | unwary | unwary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 den | amod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 muttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mutter speech: assert in a quote | past | Unktómee | the braves | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brave=Topic | ||||
| 2 | deem in a quote | past | braves = brave | Unktómee | the black Spider Spirit obl | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Attribute | |||
| 3 | walk in a quote | present | the marshes | midnight | with a flickering torch in Unktómee's hand | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on marsh=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | flicker in a quote | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | decoy in a quote | to-infinitive | to Unktómee's den | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Project Gutenberg book 8122 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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